THEY SAID WHAT?

“There is a cost on creativity. When we are tangled up in lawsuits, we are not making music or playing shows. There is a cost on our mental health. The stress this causes on all sides is immense”

- Ed Sheeran and co-writers Johnny McDaid and Steven McCutcheon in a joint statement after winning a High Court copyright battle over their track Shape Of You.

“I don’t think that biological males should be competing in female sporting events. And maybe that’s a controversial thing... but it just seems to me to be sensible”

- Boris Johnson during a visit to a hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. “We have all seen the atrocities that have been committed in Bucha and other places in Ukraine, this reveals the true nature of President Putin’s war. Any targeting and killing of civilians is a war crime and therefore Nato allies are supporting international efforts to establish all the facts, to investigate and to make sure that perpetrators are punished” - Nato secretary general Jens

Stoltenberg, above.

“I really worry that what we’re seeing is what we’ve seen in the United States with Fox News and countries like – I’m not saying it is going quite this far – Hungary and [ Viktor] Orban, where they like to close down the free, independent press. We are going to fight that every step of the way”

- Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey on the news that Channel 4

will be privatised.

“There might be some artists that do go back and listen to their own stuff for pleasure. But yeah ... not for me. Of course, everybody in our game has a huge ego. They’re massively egocentric nutjobs. But I don’t have quite the amount of ego required to listen to our music for joy”

- Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex

Kapranos.